15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Would that I hear God’s proclamation,

that he promise peace to his people,

his saints lest they come back to their folly.

Yet his salvation is near

to those who fear him,

and his Glory will dwell in our land.

Love and faithfulness have met;

righteousness and peace have embraced.

Faithfulness will reach up from the earth

while justice bends down from heaven.

The Lord will give what is good,

and our land will yield its fruit.

Justice will go before him,

and peace will follow along his path.

2nd. READING (Eph 1,3-14)

Blessed be God, the Father of Christ Jesus our Lord, who in Christ has blessed us from

heaven with every spiritual blessing. God chose us in him before the creation of the

world to be holy and without sin in his presence. From eternity he destined us in love

to be his sons and daughters through Christ Jesus, thus fulfilling his free and generous

will. This goal suited him: that his loving kindness, which he granted us in his

Beloved might finally receive all glory and praise. For in Christ we obtain freedom,

sealed by his blood, and have the forgiveness of sins. In this appears the greatness of

his grace, which he lavished on us. In all wisdom and understanding, God has made

known to us his mysterious design, in accordance with his loving-kindness in Christ.

In him and under him God wanted to unite, when the fullness of time had come,

everything in heaven and on earth. By a decree of Him who disposes all things

according to his own plan and decision we, the Jews, have been chosen and called and

we were awaiting the Messiah, for the praise of his glory. You, on hearing the word of

truth, the Gospel that saves you, have believed in him. And, as promised, you were

sealed with the Holy Spirit, the first pledge of what we shall receive, on the way to

our deliverance as a people of God, for the praise of his glory.